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To celebrate artwork that children and volunteers create together during ongoing art workshops, VE Global hosts an art festival twice a year, providing a supportive space to build children’s confidence and show off their creativity. Festival includes everything from paintings, poems and dance to singing. For this Festival de Arte on October 30th, we celebrated […]
Festival de Arte, VE Supporters
This month at Liga, the kids became experts in Field Hockey, thanks to a fun, active taller led by Señor Raúl and his young women’s field hockey team! Señor Raul and his league of players ran drills and explained field hockey basics before dividing everyone up into 3 groups to play on teams against one another. […]
Liga de Deportes
By Violeta Parilli, VE Volunteer, September 2012 Este mes en VE Global nos hemos estado preparando para nuestro Festival de Arte que tendrá como tema Halloween, o como aprendimos hace poco, Día de Todos los Santos o Muertos. La mayoría de las personas piensan que Halloween es una festividad americana, sin embargo en los países […]
Anakena, Festival de Arte
By Sanya Bischoff VE Volunteer from Frankfurt, Germany Read the original post in German, or click here for the English translation. Wenn ich einen Arbeitstag mit nur einem Wort beschreiben wollte würde ich „kunterbunt“ sagen, denn man wird immer von neuem überrascht. Ich bin mit den Kleinsten von fünf bis sieben in „Grupo 1“ und […]
Mi Club Domingo Savio
This month at Liga, the kids learned how beneficial dance can be for the body! Volunteer instructors came to teach the kids some Zumba-inspired aerobic dance, followed by snack of whole wheat pan con palta, kiwi, apples, and nuts. After snack, the kids had free time (which, in this case, meant fútbol and table tennis time). It was […]
Liga de Deportes
By Jacolien Kisteman VE Volunteer from Zwolle, Netherlands Read the original post in Dutch or click here for the English translation. Op het moment dat ik dit schrijf zit de eerste oriëntatie week bij VE Global er al weer op. Een week die voorbij is gevlogen. Een week die ontzettend gevarieerd, interessant en leuk was, […]
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